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Goddard Dedicates Supercomputer to Milt Halem
The NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Wednesday dedicated a new Compaq SC45 Supercomputer to Dr. Milton Halem, a former lab chief and Chief Information Officer at Goddard. The 512 Processor Compaq AlphaServer SC45 Supercomputer honors the contributions of Halem, a pioneer of state-of-the-art, high-performance computers and mass storage systems for the Earth science community. His efforts allowed NASA to become a world-class provider of data systems for scientific processing and analysis that has increased our collective understanding of Earth systems science. The event took place in the NCCS Computing Facility in Building 28 at GSFC. With the new computing capabilities, NASA scientists will be able to increase the accuracy of their predictions of the effects of climate changes, such as how much the Earth's temperature will rise in the future or where an approaching hurricane will land. "Using the information from NASA's Earth-observing satellites to make more quantitative assessments of climate change and its relation to weather is a key part of NASA's science strategy," said Dr. Richard Rood, Acting Chief of Goddard's Earth and Space Data Computing Division.
Halem was Goddard's Assistant Director for Information Sciences and Chief Information Officer until his retirement on January 3, 2002. He is most noted for his exploratory research in simulation studies of the impact of space observing systems on weather forecasting and climate simulation, and in more recent years his work has been in the area of information sciences. "My proudest accomplishment lies in knowing that I have contributed to space experimentation and have helped in making NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center one of the world's most powerful scientific data-computing facilities. Goddard is on the forefront of computational power and is doubling in computing power every 18 months," says Halem. Since his retirement,
Halem has continued to pursue his passion for silk screening works
of art from space. He also plans to come back to Goddard as a scientist
pursuing ideas that were once considered impossible, but now with
newly enhanced computing and data resources, it may be more realistic. Photos
By Debbie McCallum/293
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